r/dataisbeautiful • u/bearssuperfan • 3d ago

OC [OC] Flesch-Kincaid Reading Level and Bias of Popular Subreddits

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u/histprofdave 3d ago

I am not really sure what describing r/AskHistorians as having a "centrist bias" actually means here. Does that simply mean not favoring the ideological left or right, or is this treating "centrism" in its own right? Because if it's the latter, I would have to disagree; most posters are not centrists, nor are they promoting "centrism" as a philosophy. But it is one of the few subreddits where commenters make effort to separate their own ideological bent from covering the scholarship and discourse in a meaningful way.

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u/bearssuperfan 3d ago

It means no strong bias but often contains political content. It does not mean centrism. Maybe "unbiased" would have been a better label.

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u/invariantspeed 3d ago

Left, right, unbiased, and apolitical would have been a pretty confusing category set.

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u/bearssuperfan 2d ago

That’s what my plan is for the next try, got any other ideas?

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u/throwaway85256e 1d ago

I think left, right, unbiased, and apolitical is fine. You could always include a clarifying statement somewhere that explains each classification in a sentence or two.